CASE STUDY
a break for speakers to change. It took me a
few seconds.” backups and SQL backups if that’s running
on machines.”
Eliminating downtime A liberated IT team
Redstor helps radically reduce the impact
of security incidents, data breaches and
hardware failure, with a fast, proven data
management service. Deployed and configured in 15 minutes,
Redstor has made OneLogix’s data
management problems smaller and simpler.
With unique, user-driven streaming
technology, OneLogix no longer needs
to wait for a full recovery. At the click of
a button, OneLogix is able to get up and
running within seconds, not days.
Joubert said: “I’m spending way less time on
backups. In fact, when the auditors ask how
often I test the backups, I brag about how
often we do it. I’ll say I restore a full system
within a couple of minutes, and they can’t
believe it.”
Borderless visibility of data
OneLogix is now able to discover, manage
and control more than 4TB of data with a
unique solution tailored to a business that
frequently acquires new organisations.
Running on servers, laptops and
workstations, with backup selections profiled
from the management console, Redstor
provides rapid and granular restore for Office
365 and SaaS applications.
Redstor unifies backup, instant data
recovery and access, archiving, search and
data migration through a secure, central
console, enabling borderless visibility of an
organisation’s entire, complex data estate at
any time, on any device.
OneLogix now benefit from the latest
cloud-based tools, and Joubert is safe in the
knowledge that the company has best-of-
breed data management and protection.
He said: “Redstor has become the standard
backup solution for all employees and
all servers – no matter what is running
– whether it is Mac OS, or a Windows-
operating system. All the workstations are on
Redstor, as well as all 60-plus servers in the
region throughout the group.
“We have a full system backup of some
machines where necessary, and file-level
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Joubert said: “Before Redstor I had a
dedicated support technician monitoring
backups full time. The guy would pull the
reports and then phone users, trying to work
out why their backups were not running. Was
it software related? User related? System
related? Then he’d re-initiate the backups
and hope for the best.
“That was a dedicated resource, monitoring
everything actively to establish what was
happening, which was costing us money. We
don’t have to do that now.
“With Redstor, we get daily reports,
highlighting when there’s a server that might
have failed or not backed up in a while. Issues
are typically user or system related.
“The most recent failure was down to a
network connection – not once has it been
down to the Redstor software.
“Once a week I pull the reports for all the
users. If I see a red dot, I escalate it, but nine
times out of ten it is because a person has
been on leave and has not been backing up
more than seven days – or because the user
has left the organisation. It has never been
because we have a software-related failure.”
Centralised visibility
OneLogix’s IT team was looking for a
solution that was low on administration.
having to explain to some of the new guys
how the backup solution works because it’s
so automated that no-one uses it for very
long – and that’s a good thing.”
Being able to look after all data from one
easy-to-use, central management console
and monitor usage at any time, on any
device has been of major benefit. Transparent and predictable pricing
Joubert said: “Redstor is self-maintained.
We set up the environment to update itself,
so we do not have to go to any end-user to
update their backup solution. Redstor does it
automatically for us. Not only are traditional backups costly,
complicated and time-consuming, they
cannot scale to support the explosion in new
apps and growing data sets.
“We’ve gone from having one dedicated
resource monitoring the environment, to
Redstor has eliminated the retention and
billing complexities that plagued OneLogix.
Joubert said: “We have saved a tremendous
amount of money. We have saved on the
per-GB billing and on our network structure
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